MR. SOLOMON'S "SAMSON."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8062, 1 October 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

MR. SOLOMON'S "SAMSON."

The lines given below, on Mr, Solomon J. Solomon'® picture in this year's Academy, called forth from the artist the following letter :—

Dear Madam, —I do not know whom most to congratulate, you or myself — you for having composed such powerful verses, or myself for having done a work which inspired them. At any rate, I feel proud to have attempted something which proved in your hands the subject of such a fine poem. Believe me, dear madam, yours sincerely, Solomon J. Solomon.

Links Comfoikd oh Solomon's Piotore Samson," JSo. 603, Royal acadimv, 1887. Oh ! overthrown by woman's winked wiles! Oh ! vanquished by a narlol's honeyed smiles ! ( Nee here xreat .Samp.on, bound in straining cords, Mocked and surrounded by E'blllitia's lords; After long struggle, to their pow-r ha yl Ids, And. brought to earth, at lail, the hero kneels Kor twenty years he Israel's lain! hail freed, By strength divine and glorious storied deed. Now, with his locks, tbli mighty streugth Is shorn, And. "as another man," he stands forlorn ; Upon the traitress turn his plorotng «yes (Soon quenched in the darkness by those enemies), lislllali waves the severed silvered hair Willi cruet ere*, and wanton b »oin hare, Breaking th it he>rt whereon she lately leaned. She tilumuns— plo'ure of a lovely fiend ! M. J. TILSLEV.